ANOTHER two people have died after testing positive for coronavirus at the John Radcliffe's hospital trust.

NHS England figures show the latest deaths took place on Wednesday and Thursday at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

It takes the October death toll to five at the trust, which also runs the Churchill, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Banbury's Horton General Hospital.

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There was also a death last Monday, as well as two more earlier in the month, on October 22 and on October 17.

These had been the first at OUH since the beginning of July.

NHS England figures released last week showed there were 25 patients with Covid at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the John Radcliffe, as of 8am on Tuesday. 

This is up from 16 at the same time last week.

No patient was on ventilation as of Tuesday morning, compared with one last week.

It comes as Boris Johnson at a press conference on Saturday announced a second national lockdown.

He said: "We have got to be humble in the face of nature.

"In this country, alas as across most of Europe, the virus is spreading even faster than the reasonable worst case scenario of our scientific advisors."

The latest death at the Oxfordshire trust brings the official Covid death toll there to 187 since the pandemic began.